What does this site have to offer? “372 front pages from 39 countries presented alphabetically.” The nice thing is that it is also very easy to use. The pages are listed alphabetically and you just scroll over them with your mouse to see it larger on the side, and if you click it you can get it full size. For more you simply click “View More Pages”.

Terragen is a landscape generator, which means it can be used to generate very near photorealistic virtual landscapes. Maybe some screen shots cam make a better point than I, so take a look at some of the demo shots from Tarragon’s web site—you will not believe these are made by end users. WOW, is all I can say. I had to do this as a download of the week—imagine the… Continue reading

What does T.W.I.N.K.I.E.S. stand for? Well to answer your question, it stands for “Tests With Inorganic Noxious Kakes In Extreme Situations”. Basically Twinkie experiments. There are seven experiments in all.

Resistivity Test — “To test the resistivity of a Twinkie, a 110V standard AC household current was run across it.” This was an interesting test that seemed to prove that twinkies pass no current at all. For more details check… Continue reading

This is a site dedicated to the art of Scott Blake who makes fascinating portraits, art, and such from bar codes. It is broken down into four main sections—Portraits, Digital: Video and Interactive, Analog: Paintings and Collages, and Other Art.

Portraits — is exactly what it says: portraits of cultural icons using bar codes.

Digital: Video and Interactive — This section is broken down into more sections within itself. Here… Continue reading

I found something to make managing images for specific purposes easier that I know you’ll enjoy. How many times have you found the need to resize pictures? How about change a picture’s file extension (jpg, bmp, etc)? Whether it’s posting pictures on a website, emailing photos, creating avatars, or posting signatures on message boards there are many reasons to change the size or type of an image file.

The DirectX Diagnostic Tool, available in all versions of Windows after Win 98, can help you troubleshoot sound or video issues but is also a great source for specific information about your system and hardware.

Go to Start/Run and type “dxdiag” (without the quotes) into the box then… Continue reading

So what’s a site called Cardstacker about? Well it is Bryan Berg’s page—he holds the Guinness World Record for the World’s Tallest House of Cards and in 2004, “Guinness created a new record category for the World’s Largest House of Cards to recognize a project Berg built for Walt Disney World—a replica of Cinderella’s Castle. He continues to hold both records.”

Here’s what happens: you’re working on a really great image you shot with your high-resolution digital camera. It looks great—so sharp you could cut yourself on it. Then, someone asks you to e-mail it to them so they can see it too.

Since it’s a high res shot, you decide that you should probably resize it first. You go into your imaging program, click the Image Size menu option, and… Continue reading

Do you have a company logo or symbol that you would love to use as a font character? Maybe you are from another planet and you want to send a letter home but don’t have your native alphabet. Whatever the case, you can do it with the XP Private Character Editor.

The PCE features basic tools to help you create up to 6,400 unique characters for use in your font… Continue reading

I suggest everyone reads the “About AFG” section because it really tells you what all went into making this site possible. They’ve collected data from over 30 stations across the country to bring you this site.

Animals — in this section you can choose from, you guessed it, what animals you would like to learn about. They are broken down into subtopic categories like mammals, birds, insects, reptiles, and amphibians… Continue reading

Do you have problems when you start up your computer? Does it seem to take a long time or you get strange messages? Fortunately Windows has something called “Selective Startup” that will help you figure out what’s going wrong.

Go to Start/Run and type “msconfig” (without the quotes) in the box.

Under the “General” tab click “Selective Startup”. (Screen shot shows XP, but this will work in Win 98/ME &amp… Continue reading

I know we’ve brought you map sites before, but now I’ve found one that is so useful you’ll have to bookmark it. I’ve already used it about a dozen times to find places I need to go to or just places I want to check out.

Not only is it useful, but it is easy to use too. I highly recommend that you take the tour located at the bottom… Continue reading

Have you ever been out shooting and suddenly your camera stopped responding? It looks like it’s on, but nothing works—no dials, no buttons—it’s locked up. I know it’s happened to me a time or two and no amount of pounding it on the hood of my Jeep seems to make any difference.

So, when a friend called this weekend and told me he was shooting some pictures and the camera… Continue reading

Q: After updating to XP Service Pack 2 when I go to install some programs I get a message that says, “The system file is not suitable for running MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows applications.” What’s going on?

A: For some reason the installation of SP2 can cause a file called “AUTOEXEC.NT” to be corrupted or deleted. This file is part of the Windows 16-bit subsystem and usually lives… Continue reading

This site is really cool! Put in any two keywords and have them duke it out. How do they win? Well, this site searches to see how many listings there are for the words and then the one with the most wins the fight.

I put in tea vs. coffee and coffee won with a grand total of 53,500,000 results to tea’s measly 37,200,000.

We all want privacy—especially when using the internet. Not that you’re visiting questionable sites, but who wants snoopy co-workers or nosey family members tracing your steps through cyberspace? With the click of a toolbar button (or Ctrl+H) your browsing history will be on display for all to see. Want to avoid this? Whether you use InternetExplorer or Firefox, here’s what you can do…

Now isn’t it odd that I’m bringing you a cool site about gardening in the middle of winter? Well this site comes from Australia, and it is the middle of summer down under! So let’s all of us get out of the cold and enjoy this site!

Experience the beauty of Australian plants from the comfort of your computer chair. And let me tell you these are real beauties! From… Continue reading